EXAMPLE SYLLABUSEDPY 6443 – Advanced Counseling Child/AdolescentFall 2004Office hours – 1 pm to 3 pm Mondays, 3rd floor CollinsAccommodations:Students who have disabilities should contact me to discuss accommodations necessary to ensure full participation in class activities. Texts: Pennington – The Development of Psychopathology: Nature and NurtureCummings, Davies, & Cambell – Development of Psycho-pathology and the Family ProcessPackets – To be distributed in class.Course Objective:Equal attention will be given to study infant, toddler and adolescent psychology. Board conceptual views of the field of child psychology will be examined, including: Attachment, Object Relations, Behavioral, Cognitive-Behavioral, Systems and Narrative-Constructionist theories. Children’s assessment instruments will be covered in the course.Also specific skill and technique training will be provided. Students will also be providedwith practical applied training in individual, family and group therapy with children.Attendance:One letter grade will be deducted for any student who misses all or most of 3 or more class meetings without good reasons. I reserve the right to adjust final grades based on a student’s class participation.Grading:Note taking and Folder 15%For each class period a different individual will be responsible for taking notes, leaving others to freely participate in class discussion. The note taker is required to type and distribute the notes the following week. At the end of the semester, students are to submittheir child psychology folder to the professor for a grade. The folder should contain notesfrom every class as well as any handouts provided by students and the professor.Class Presentation 15%In groups of two or three, students are to present on a relevant topic. (Topics will be recommended in class.) The presentation should last about 30 minutes allowing for 10 minutes of discussion. Handouts must be included. Analysis Paper 25%Students are to write a five to seven page analysis paper about the movie AI from a Psychoanalytic, Analytic, or Object Relations/Psycho-Dynamic perspective. Works by Freud, Jung, Klien, Bowlby, Mahler, Kernberg, Fairbairne and Cashdan may be helpful inwriting your paper. Research Paper 45%You may have the opportunity to work with an adolescent group. Up to four persons can participate as counselors with these groups, according to the size of the groups. The second option is to work with a child in the clinic. Other options may be discussed if necessary. Your paper is to have five or six pages of research literature related to the issues you are dealing with in the counseling situation along with six to ten pages that include method, results and discussion sections. Class Topics and Assignments8/24 Introduction to Class8/31 a) Review of Developmental Models b) The first three year of Life9/7 Object Relations and Theory of Development Fairy Tales9/14 Attachment Theory Fairy Tales9/21 Assessment and Diagnosis of Children Turn in AI anal9/28 Play Therapies Turn in AI analysis10/5 Filial Play therapy Training10/12 Group and Family Therapy Training10/19 Unconscious MotivationIndian Boarding School paperPresentations10/26 Extrinsic MotivationIndian Boarding School paper11/2 Integrated Causal Factors Model of Behavioral or Emotional Problems11/9 Integrated Causal Factors Model of Behavioral or Emotional Problems11/16 Externalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)Presentations11/23 Externalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)PresentationsResearch Paper due11/30 Internalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)Presentations12/7 Internalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and